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Saskatchewan Partnership for Arts Research (SPAR) REPORTS ON SPAR ARTIST SURVEY DATA, No. 5: RESPONDENTS BY LOCATION: REGINA, SASKATOON, AND ALL OTHER LOCATIONS Mary Blackstone, Sam Hage, Ian McWilliams Saskatchewan Partnership for Arts Research www2.uregina.ca/spar c/o: Department of Theatre E-mail: [email protected] RC 271 Phone: 306.337.3165 Riddell Centre Fax: 306.585.5530 University of Regina Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2 Data herein was gathered for the project, Understanding the Arts Ecology of Saskatchewan, which was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the SPAR partners: Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 Summary of Findings, by Location..................................................................................................................... 1 Charts and Figures ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Distribution of Respondents ................................................................................................................................... 9 q01 In which of the following general arts discipline(s) are you engaged? ......................................................... 10 q22: How important is your local context in facilitating your creativity and/or your art practice? .................... 11 q09.a: How important have collaborations been to your overall evolution as an artist? .................................... 12 q09.b: How important have collaborations been to your ability to create or interpret work? ............................ 13 q11.a: How important have networking/informal connections been to your overall evolution as an artist? ..... 14 q11.b: How important have networking/informal connections been to your ability to create/interpret work? . 15 Network Density, by location: .............................................................................................................................. 16 q17: On the importance of the following in helping make connections necessary to your creative work? ......... 17 q26: Hours/week devoted to creative practice (excluding any hours spent teaching) ........................................ 19 q27: Hours/week devoted to teaching or mentorship (formal or informal) ........................................................ 20 q28: Hours/week engaged in other employment outside of creative practice .................................................... 21 q31.2: Approximate gross personal income from art practice ............................................................................. 22 q31.3: Have you received a public grant for your creative work? ........................................................................ 23 q36: Estimated overall gross income in 2013. ...................................................................................................... 24 q40: Age ............................................................................................................................................................... 25 q42: Are you an Aboriginal person (First Nations, North American Indian, Métis or Inuit)? ............................... 26 q47: What is the highest level of formal education that you have completed? .................................................. 27 Open Questions .................................................................................................................................................... 28 Table 2, q19: Are there any resources that you consider to be necessary for the realization of your creative goals as an artist to which you do not currently have access? ............................................................... 28 Table 3, q25: If you would like to provide further information regarding any changes you have observed in the arts ecology of Saskatchewan and the extent to which they have been helpful or harmful to your creative practice ...................................................................................................................................... 41 Process and Methodology ................................................................................................................. 58 DRAFT REPORT -- SPAR Artist Survey Data Report No. 5: Respondents By Location 1 Introduction This report contains original data obtained by the Saskatchewan Partnership for Arts Research (SPAR), a research partnership formed in the fall of 2012 by the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture and the University of Regina. SPAR was formed to undertake primary, artist-centered research focused on gaining a better understanding of the arts as an ecosystem—identifying artists and their areas of creative practice, how artists work and earn a living, how they are connected with each other and broader provincial and national ecosystems, and how sustainably the arts ecosystem is functioning. The research began with two simultaneous surveys—one of provincial artists and another of the public. As a supplement to SPAR’s initial report, Understanding the Arts Ecology of Saskatchewan from the Artist’s Perspective: An Overview of Results from the Artist Survey of 2014, this report summarizes responses to the Artist Survey according to respondents’ location (Regina, Saskatoon, or all other locations) – both qualitative information from open-ended questions as well as more quantifiable data. It should be read in the context of the more comprehensive Overview. The closer analysis here is further informing follow-up consultations with artists which should give SPAR a better sense of how representative these findings are of the overall arts ecosystem, but because this is an interim report its findings should not be automatically assumed to be representative of the provincial artist population or a segment of it. See the Process and Methodology section at the end of this report for further explanation of this point. For a more complete overview of the SPAR survey data and related reports, refer to the SPAR website: www2.uregina.ca/spar. This research project has been funded by the SPAR partners and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. When referencing this data please acknowledge both SPAR and SSHRC. Summary of Findings, by Location For this report, respondents with postal codes in Regina, Saskatoon, or “All Other Places” were separated out for the purposes of comparing their responses to selected questions on topics such as artists’ disciplines, workweeks, income, and other demographic information. Significant location-specific responses to open survey questions have also been examined. For a more detailed overview of the distribution of respondents, see Distribution of Respondents (p9). Disciplines and Local Context A breakdown of responses by the artists’ location and creative discipline reveals few correlations among respondents’ disciplines and location. Generally, some observations are possible. Respondents in Regina and Saskatoon are more likely to have identified engagement in the following disciplines: Film and Video Arts; Theatre/Acting/Directing/Technical Work; as well as Interdisciplinary and Multimedia Arts. Saskatoon had a noticeably higher number of respondent identifications in Theatre, etc. (n=46) when compared to Regina (n=32) and all other places (n=17). Respondents from all other places were more likely to have identified engagement in the disciplines of Crafts/Decorative Arts/Traditional Arts and Visual Arts/Photography/Design. (See Charts q1, p10). Respondents were also asked, “How Important is your local context (e.g., your immediate natural environment, your particular community or neighbourhood, etc.) in facilitating your creativity and/or your art practice?” Overall, respondents rated their local context important, but it was given the greatest importance by respondents outside of Regina and Saskatoon (See Charts q22, p11) SPAR Artist Survey Data Report No. 5: Respondents By Location 2 Collaboration, networking, and informal connections Generally, respondents from all three regions identified collaboration and networking/informal connections as being important to their evolution as an artist as well as their ability to create/interpret work. Regarding respondents’ ability to create and interpret work, however, collaboration was ranked as being less important to respondents from all other places than it was for respondents from both Regina and Saskatoon (See Charts q9, p12-13 and q11 p14-15). Network Density and Location SPAR’s previous analysis of networking density among respondents1 revealed a correlation between high networking density and residence in Regina and Saskatoon (compared to all other places). Higher networking density also correlated with receipt of a publicly funded grant in the past two years as well as higher incomes. While a cause and effect relationship between networking and grant success, income or an urban environment cannot be assumed, there clearly is a correlation which suggests that the importance of networking overtly registered by survey respondents may be further supported by their responses to other questions. Various means of connection were ranked with regard to their importance facilitating respondents’ creative work. Of the nineteen options, most were ranked similarly regardless of respondents’